Like many other musicians I look forward to seeing what new products are announced when Winter NAMM comes around each year. Last year I spent some time posting quite a few new products that caught my eye. This year I didn’t really have the time to post about them as it was a flat out week on the home front with my wife’s and my son’s birthdays all within the days that NAMM was on. Now that NAMM is over I thought that I might write a post covering the new products that excited me the most this year. So lets get started: (more…)
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My top picks for Winter NAMM 2012
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Tags: 2012, DiMarzio, gear, guitar, Ibanez, Marshall, MXR, NAMM, new, Orange, top picks, Winter
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Cool new gear: EMG JH Set
Friday, May 13th, 2011
"Extra Metal Growl!"
Metallica’s James Hetfield has been a long time EMG pickup (81-60 models) user. It’s not really a surprise that EMG saw fit to make a Hetfield signature set.
The awesome thing about the new EMG JH set is that Jame’s Hetfield was not content with just taking his 81-60 staple, and throwing them in a box with his picture on it. He worked with EMG to build a whole new pickup set.
Taking the best bits of active and passive pickups, Hetfield had EMG design for him a monster set of pickups that have the clarity and punch of passives, and the active crunch and tone of actives.
Here’s what EMG have to say: (more…)
Tags: EMG, Hetfield, James, JH set, Metallica, new, pickups
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